archaic

arkaainen, vanhahtava, vanha

alkukantainen puhekieltä A general term for the prehistoric period intermediate between the earliest period (‘http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-Indian Paleo-Indian’, ‘Paleo-American’, ‘American‐paleolithic’, &c.) of human presence in the Western Hemisphere, and the most recent prehistoric period (‘Woodland’, etc.).
1958, Wiley, Gordon R., and Philip Phillips, Method and Theory in American Archaeology, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, page 107:

... Archaic Stage ... the stage of migratory hunting and gathering cultures continuing into environmental conditions approximately those of the present.

... prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.

A person familiar with the dialect of certain portions of Massachusetts will not fail to recognize, in ordinary discourse, many words now noted in English vocabularies as archaic, the greater part of which were in common use about the time of the King James translation of the Bible. Shakespeare stands less in need of a glossary to most New Englanders than to many a native of the Old Country.

There is in the best archaic coin work of the Greeks ... a strength and a delicacy which are often wanting in the fully developed art of a later age.

Brann's compass of words, idioms and phrases harks back to the archaic and reaches forward to the futuristic.'' http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=106379045&tag=Brann,+William+Cowper:+The+Complete+Works+of+Brann+the+Iconoclast,+Volume+1,+1898&query=archaic&id=Bra1Ico Volume 1